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Seven acrobatic performers dressed like pro wrestlers perform a scene in a ring

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Circus arts meet pro wrestling in a raucous theatrical performance

On Oct. 5 and 6, Cal Performances is presenting SLAM!, a gravity-defying circus arts performance that may leave audiences rethinking what’s possible on theatrical stages.

Performers on stage in the Broadway show,

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Two centuries later, performance spaces still struggle with ‘soft censorship’

Audience members at a rally in support of Ukraine wave Ukrainian flags and the United States flag

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With $3 million gift, Berkeley prepares to build premier Ukrainian studies program

The white cover of an artist book with a sepia-toned drawing of an eye next to a row of several vials labeled things like,

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Artists’ books shine in new exhibit at the UC Berkeley Library

UC Berkeley musicology professor Nicholas Mathew sits for the camera, next to a still photo of an Olympian.

Watch a UC Berkeley professor break down the origins and stories behind national anthems

Camilo and five other AileyCampers practice a dance on stage in 2009

Dance prepared him for the NFL. It began with a Berkeley summer camp.

Berkeley Talks: Reconsidering Black America’s relationship to the plantation

Film changed the way people saw sexuality. Now, social media does.

Jeff MacKie-Mason, dressed in all black, sits on a couch and smiles for a portrait

Jeff MacKie-Mason has seen the future of libraries

Jeff Davis, the retiring university carillonist, sits on the bench of the grand carillon on the observation deck of the Campanile. His body is turned toward the camera and he's wearing eye glasses, a beard, a short-sleeved plaid shirt and a smile.

Retiring University Carillonist Jeff Davis reflects on ‘the coolest job in the world’

Off-script at Berkeley: How one graduate made a home on campus apart from her twin

Daniella laughs with a friend as she interviews her in a podcast studio

As graduation nears, student creates a ‘time capsule’ of her Berkeley experience

Professor Nicholas Mathew holds up a 500-year-old manuscript to a group of visiting middle school students

Middle school students explore musical treasures from special Berkeley collections

I’m a Berkeleyan: BAMPFA Senior Curator Anthony Graham asks, Why now? And why here?

Circle-shaped headshots of Jennifer Redfearn and John Connelly, UC Berkeley's newest recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships, are in shades of blue.

UC Berkeley historian, documentary filmmaker are 2024 Guggenheim Fellows

Two images side by side: The first is a book cover of The Ministry for the Future; second is Kim Stanley Robinson holding a mic while giving a talk

Berkeley Talks: Sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson on the need for ‘angry optimism’

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